Grade 2 English Language Arts · Level 4, Understand informational texts, text features, reasons, and sources; gather information for a purpose.

Ask a Research Question and Find a Source

Generate a focused question about a topic and use an age-appropriate reference source to locate relevant information.

How the lesson starts: Ask a Research Question and Find a Source

Ember the library dragon
Meet Ember. Ember is a friendly dragon who guards the library. Tomas runs in and shouts, owls! Ember smiles. Owls is a topic. Let's turn it into a question you can look up.
Can you look it up?
A research question has a fact for an answer. What do owls eat? A book can tell you. Are owls nice? That is an opinion. I like owls? That's not even a question!
Ember checks a list
Tomas picks butterflies. Ember checks his list. Butterflies are my favorite? A feeling. Which butterfly is prettiest? An opinion. What do butterflies eat? A book can tell that fact. That's the one!